Spring in central New Jersey can be magical and difficult at the same time.
🌿 A sound *constant* landscaping. The buzzing of lawn-mowers, tree cutting tools, leaf blowers. People where I live are concerned with the state of their lawn (including our household). You can always **hear** landscaping at this time of year. We are so vain 🙂
🌿 Everything is flowering. A stick you thought was dead is producing flowers. Bushes that were this spindly thing in the winter are now flowering. Everything is flowering.
🌿 The smells are incredible. Daffodils, magnolias, forsythias, and other good-smelling things that I have no idea of what they are, are flowering. Quite intoxicating.
🌿 The colors are lovely. Mint green, moss green, deep green, yellow, pink, violet, white, all present.
🌿 The smell of manure… The smell of poop, the smell of spring. Many people are mulching/fertilizing their lawns and gardens so most definitely you will get a strong whiff of manure/fertilizer.
🌿 Allergies are in full swing. Spring is beautiful but the air is thick with pollen and your throat closes because of all the particles. The pollen can also be visible to the naked eye- just have to look carefully.
What is this time of year like where you live? What smalls and sounds do you notice?
Mom of Children 